If you have tape with the radio, just by one of the tape adapters (looks like a tape with a cord) for about $15. Put in the "tape" and plug the cord in to the Ipod.

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Ralph Burnette
1993 300SD (286k + miles)
2000 SL500
2001 ML320

Will this work? I thought the door had to be shut on the cassette deck to play. I KNOW I remember reading that on this forum. Also, I KNOW I remember reading a mod for the old Becker radios that documents how to hook up an aux jack.

Help. I can't find it.

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daw_two
Germantown, TN

Current with links:
05/2012 1984 300D Light Ivory, Red leather interior
Cluster Gauge Needles Paint Kit for sale
Wagon parts from 1984 300TD
01/2013 1991 350SDL Gray with fire damage
01/2012 87 Champagne
New Old Stock (NOS) parts<-- still some left

Past:
3/2008 1986 300SDL "Coda"
04/2010 1965 190D(c) "Ben"
& many, many more

Becker will charge about $100 for a aux in refit.

Shoot, for a feew more dollars you could just buy an aftermarket HU that has the I Pod connection. I just got the Alpine iDA-X100 and have my Sirius radio and I Pod plugged into it. It's great.

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" The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do."- Warren Buffett

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 25,000 miles

Someone posted on here a mod you can do to the radio.....where to solder in the wires or make one that fits into the antenna socket......I know someone has done this.

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daw_two
Germantown, TN

Current with links:
05/2012 1984 300D Light Ivory, Red leather interior
Cluster Gauge Needles Paint Kit for sale
Wagon parts from 1984 300TD
01/2013 1991 350SDL Gray with fire damage
01/2012 87 Champagne
New Old Stock (NOS) parts<-- still some left

Past:
3/2008 1986 300SDL "Coda"
04/2010 1965 190D(c) "Ben"
& many, many more

Agreed, but you're aware that there are some Mercedes owners that don't want to alter the OEM appearance

Yeah, I know. I'm not one of them, though.

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" The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do."- Warren Buffett

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 25,000 miles

I just like the BIG print on the buttons --- I can read it without my reading glasses. And the white on black kind of suites Coda's interior.

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daw_two
Germantown, TN

Current with links:
05/2012 1984 300D Light Ivory, Red leather interior
Cluster Gauge Needles Paint Kit for sale
Wagon parts from 1984 300TD
01/2013 1991 350SDL Gray with fire damage
01/2012 87 Champagne
New Old Stock (NOS) parts<-- still some left

Past:
3/2008 1986 300SDL "Coda"
04/2010 1965 190D(c) "Ben"
& many, many more

Yeah, getting old sucks!

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" The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do."- Warren Buffett

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 25,000 miles

It usually beats "the alternative."

Yeah, the eyes thing is bad enough......but the memory is the worse part.

I found these links:
http://web.mac.com/dakota/Becker/iPod.html
and
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/attachments/car-audio-multimedia/7265d1049520983-help-front-speaker-questions-w126-i-searched-searched-diagram-mini.jpg ---- don't have the post though.

The first link makes it clear that for a Becker 1480, you have to send it in. I haven't tried to magnify the information on the second link.....

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daw_two
Germantown, TN

Current with links:
05/2012 1984 300D Light Ivory, Red leather interior
Cluster Gauge Needles Paint Kit for sale
Wagon parts from 1984 300TD
01/2013 1991 350SDL Gray with fire damage
01/2012 87 Champagne
New Old Stock (NOS) parts<-- still some left

Past:
3/2008 1986 300SDL "Coda"
04/2010 1965 190D(c) "Ben"
& many, many more

It sure would be nice if someone could pop the cover off a radio that Becker had fitted a line in to and snap a picture or three...

Yes, it would.........or if I just had a schematic of one....I might be able to figure it out.

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daw_two
Germantown, TN

Current with links:
05/2012 1984 300D Light Ivory, Red leather interior
Cluster Gauge Needles Paint Kit for sale
Wagon parts from 1984 300TD
01/2013 1991 350SDL Gray with fire damage
01/2012 87 Champagne
New Old Stock (NOS) parts<-- still some left

Past:
3/2008 1986 300SDL "Coda"
04/2010 1965 190D(c) "Ben"
& many, many more

If you convert a Becker or some other stereo unit to be able to attach an I Pod to it, you still can't control the I Pod from the HU, can you? I like being able to control it through the HU.

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" The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do."- Warren Buffett

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 25,000 miles

this may seem like a silly suggestion but here goes. My Becker is a tape player with CD changer. I just got one of those tape adapters that you put into the tape player and pluged the other end into the headphone jack of my IPod...i get no sound distortion and the stock system sounds pretty darn good. it cost me like $20 bucks for the adaptor and it comes with a charger for the Ipod that you can plug into the cigar lighter. Just a thought...

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1990 560 SEL- "Goldielocks"
1984 300SD TurboDiesel- "Ole' Blue"